Improvement in wagon-seat fasteners



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER OAKES, OF SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-SEAT FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,544, dated October14, 1879; application filed August 21, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, OLIVER OAKES, of Southbridge, county of Worcester,State of Massachusetts, am the inventor of an Improved Wagon-SeatFastener, of which thefollowing is a full, clear,- and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

My invention relates to a device for fastening the seat upon the body ofa wagon; and it consists in the combination of parts hereinafterparticularly described and recited in the claim, whereby the seat may befirmly locked in its place upon the wagon-body, and may be readily andquickly detached and removed and replaced.

Figure l is a side elevation of the devices embodying my invention, andintended to be bolted or otherwise fastened upon the seat andwagon-body, ashereinafter described, the view given showing the parts inposition when the seat is locked in place upon the body. Fig. 2 is anend view of the same. Fig. 3 is a reverse view of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 isa plan, the stud which is secured upon theseat being seen in section online w as of Fig. 3.

A is a plate, preferably of iron or other metal, and adaptedto besecured to the side of the wagon-body by means of bolts or screws, asseen at a. In this plate is the vertical slot a. This may be constitutedby means of a loop or band of iron, as seen at a secured on the plate A,as shown, or the plate maybe bent outwardly to form a slot or recessbetween its inner wall and the wagon-body, or in any other mannerdesired. In this slot is arranged the latch B, pivoted to the plate atb, and provided with the finger-piece or handle b for raising the same.

0 is a stud or arm, which is fixed upon the seat by means of a broadhead, 0, provided with holes for the fastening screws. This stud dependsfrom the lower edge of the end of the seat, and upon its lower end hasthe hook 0 Upon its side is the clip 0 arranged to rest upon the topedge of the wagon-body.

The slot a in the plate A and the latch B are so adapted in size andarrangement that when the latch is raised to the position shown indotted lines in Fig. 3 the stud or arm 0 and its hooked end 0 may passdown through the slot a and that when the latch is then swung down, asshown, the stud or arm 0 will be forced into the end of the slot, andits hook 0 project beyond the lower edge of the end wall thereof, andthe arm 0 be thereby prevented from escaping upward out of the slot.

The nose I) of the latch is rounded off, as shown, to permit of itsswinging upward to release the arm 0, and the butt-end of the latch ispreferably beveled, as seen at N, the inner wall of that end of the slota being correspondingly beveled, so that the fall of the latch is thuslimited to the desired position.

It is evident that by means of this combination of devices the seat of awagon may be locked firmly in place upon the wagon-body, and it may bereadily and conveniently released, removed, and replaced.

I am aware that a stud carrying a hook and fixed on the seat has beenheretofore used in connection with a slotted band or strappiece 011 thewagon body. I do not claim these devices, broadly.

I am also aware that such a hooked stud has been locked in place in theslot in'the strap by means of a cam working in said slot bearing uponsaid stud, and held in position by means of inclined planes on the outerface of the strap, uponwhich rode the inner face of a thumb-piece fixedto the cam shaft or axis. These devices I do not show or claim.

My intention is to claim the specific devices I have hereinbeforedescribednamely, the hooked stud, the slotted plate or strap, and thelatch, with its thumb-piece and beveled buttend, adapted to fit againstthe correspondingly beveled end wall of the slot, thus locking thehooked stud in place, while the downward fall of the latch is limited,as set forth.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, as a fastening for vehicleseats, of the plate A, havingvertical slot a the end wall of which is beveled as described, and thelatch B, provided with handle b and beveled butt-end I), together withthe stud or arm G, carrying hooked end 0 constructed and arranged tooperate as specified.

OLIVER OAKES.

Witnesses E. M. PHILLIPS, H. J. CONANT.

